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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1907.
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HELL'S JIAV IIOTTLKK.
The news columns contain great
Information concerning the probab
ilities of rapid work on the Drain
road to Coos Bay. It is entirely in
line with tho statement contained in
this paper on another date that Ore
gon is shortly to be the battle ground
for several great transcontinental
companies. From sources which can
not bo discarded or belittled the in
, formation lma been received that the
whole railroad world is watching this
section where tho interest centers in
momentous events. It is not only tho
Southern Pacific, but the Great
Northern, tho Northern Pacific, the
Rock Island, the Northwestern and
the so-called Moffat road, which are
pointing to this neglected but re
sourceful land. They are aware of.
the value of Coos Bay as a great and
capacious harbor and their advent
hero may be expected with confi
dence unless, in a careless or impa
tient moment, wo so act that tho
harbor will be crippled or will be
practically turned over to one com
pany alone. In that event we may
expect only the Southern Pacific, for
tho incentive to make Coos Bay a
terminal will bo no longer active
with the other companies.
Tho people of Coos Bay want the
Drain road. They are glad that the
Southern Pacific has become active.
They are glad the Northwestern, tho
Great Northern, the Northern Pacific,
tho Rock Island and the Moffat road
aro active. They notice that Mr.
Seymour Boll, who has been quiet
for a year, becomes activo the mo
ment this general railroad activity
begins and the great railroad con
flict Is commenced. They naturally
ask what this application for a fran
chise now means. If the ordinance
proposed by Mr. Bell were less lib
oral for tho applicant and left any
power in tho city to regulate or con
trol tho action of the street (?) rall-
road, tho curiosity of the citizen
might bo less pronounced. But It
only requires a reading of the ordi
nance by any thoughtful person to
seo that such n franchiso will be a
triumph for anyone who gets it. The
most simple minded neophyte could
tako such a franchiso and find an
'assignee at onco who would pay him
a small fortune for it. There aro
men who would pay a price to tho
city If tho franchiso could run to
them. In fnct, it would only be nec
essary to offer any ono of tho rail
road companies mentioned nil tho
rights which Mr. Bell hopes to ob
tain by this instrument and they
would not only pay well for It but
would oporato it at onco. Why? Bo
causo in tho hands of such a com
pany it would mean the ownership
of Coos By and tho end of water
competition.
Now some Innocent persons mny
jay that tho company owning tills
oad under tho proposed charter, Is
' V.. bilged to transport cars for other
porson or corporations at a rea
sonable rate. Sec. 11 of tho ordi
nance Is as follows: "Tho said Soy
luour H. Boll, trustee, his heirs or
assigns, shall under tho provisions
of this franchise, transport nud
switcli at n uniform and reasonable
prico' for any porson, firm or corpo
ration, any and all cars of such per
sons, firms or corporations."
Tills is nil tho restriction Mr. Boil
or liis nsignco will havo on his or its
rotations witli other companies for
fifty years. Lot us supposo tho.frau
chlso woro assigned, just in that
form, to the Great Northern Railway
company. Supposo then It did not
havo tlmo to transport or switch cars
for tho Southern Pacific. Suppose
It fixed a high rato for doing tho
work. Do you think tho Southern
Pacific would enjoy tho litigation
which must follow or tho merchants
delight In their inconveniences?
Who Is to fix that reasonable rato
and whut would ho tho offect of tho
failure of Mr. Boll and his assignees
to comply with this provision? It is
the most important, provision of the
ordinance aud yet It provides no tim
Ire to decide what Is a reasonable
rate .and leaves no power in tho city
government or people to even sug
gest what is reasonable. If Mr. Bell
shall refuse utterly to comply with
this provision, there 13 no forfeiture
declared and no inconvenience or
punishment follows. Even in the
matter of running passenger cars no
obligation rests on Mr. Bell or his
assignee. If he runs two ca'rs every
day he holds the franchise. No mat
ter If the whole city Is disturbed by
the failure to run more than two cars
a day, no power can require him to
run more for fifty years. In a great
city where strikes sometimes occur,
street car companies often paralyze
all traffic by refusing to comply with
reasonable demands of strikers and
are brought to terms only by the
prospect of having a forfeiture de
clared. Not so with this franchise
for fifty years. Mr. Bell will have
It all his own way.
Tho truth is that it would be bet
ter to grant this franchise to the
Southern Pacific. It would enable
that company to occupy the water
front exclusively if it crossed the bay
at North Bend. If it came down on
the east side it would bo even more
effectual to place the control in that
company's hands, for 'the water front
on the east side would belong "to that
company and the line from the de
pot up to North Bend would take
the water front of the peninsular.
We hope the Southern Pacific will
not consider that we aro fighting
its entrance into these cities, merely
because we aro objecting to Mr.
Bell's charter.
GEMS AM) LIGHT.
When tho crowd meets in the
market place, each member loudly
denies that he has any love for the
fine shades of thought and feeling
which are embodied in tho sentiment
of poetry. But when the crowd dis
solves, each goes to his own place
and in silence estimates the gains
of the day. Whether It be profit,
or triumph, or glory, he measures its
values, after all, by one standard
only tho standard of love and hope.
He becomes a poet In act and feeling
and, if only ho can find a man who
will put that sentiment into words
compress it, so to speak, into a lit
erary gem, he will honor that man
and cherish his work. Oftentimes
the poetic sentiment, like an atom
of radium, is so wonderfully com
pressed that it takes a great soul to
see and appreciate it, .but when it
is seen It lights up all the dark
world, and men learn that it is not
the struggle and tho coarse conflict
of the market place which they
covet, not the profit, the triumph or
the glory, but the poetic delight
which comes after long dreary hours,
In the sentiment of a single moment.
Some of the world's briefest poems
havo been like those particles of ra
dium. This little octave which has
won the prize of immortality as be
ing tho best of the shortest, Is an
example:
The night hns a thousand eyes,
The day but one
The light of a whole world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
Tho heart, but ono
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
There Is a littlo gem in the Tech
nical World magazine by Ralph Hod
son, called "Tho Hammers." Some
how it seems specially striking in
more ways than one, as wo read it
and then listen to sounds of the
builders' work around us. Can you
see tho radium light?
Noiso of hammers onco I heard,
Many hammers, busy hammers,
Beating, slinping, night and day,
Shaping, heating dust and clay
To a palaco; saw it reared;
Saw tho hammers laid away.
"And I listened, and I heard
Hammers beating, night and day,
In tho palaco newly reared,
Beating it to dust and clay.
Other hummers, muffled hammers,
Silent hammers of decay."
That is It. Work on, strugglo on,
fight your battles well, and build;
but It is uot what you build that will
II vo. Only tho spirit with which you
build does not decay. Tho house you
construct goes to (ho next genera
tion, decadent and desorted. But If
you build It with tho right thought,
tho right spirit, your children will
rebuild moro splendidly, hi lovo and
hope, honoring you and bestowing
blessings on ages unborn. Bo you
not seo? Corinth, that ancient and
historic city, is "beaten to dust nnu
clay." But they built with tho right
spirit and the architecture of Cor
inth comes to us with its mossago of
hope and love nud teaches us how to
build with a largor and bettor pur
pose. A SMATjTj, shallow harbor.
Do Coos Bay people really think
tho world knows tho truth about it?
Hero is what Success Magazlno, pub-
lished In New York City, says In an
article by one Chauncey Thomas,
called "Our Northwest."
"In a large sense Puget sound is
a great landlocked, mountain-protected
harbor with a depth from 100
to COO feet. Here Is coal In
tho hills by millions on millions of
tons. The other Pacific harbors
have none so far discovered, except
ing Coos Bay, bdlow tho Columbia,
which is a small shallow harbor."
Success prides itself on the accu
racy of Mr. Chauncey Thomas' arti
cles and vouches for their correct
ness. The excerpt from his produc
tion would Indicate that has never
been In Coos Bay. No use to be se
vere with him for he could not help
being misinformed. Up in Seattle
things look big close to and very
small afar off. That's the way they
probably looked to Mr.. Chauncey
Thomas. There is no question about
Seattle and- Pugeh sound, but Mr.
Chauncey Thomas should have got
his facts about C003 Bay the way he
got them about Seattle by a per
sonal visit. Then things would have
looked large to him on this end and
not so large on the other. Yet, after
all, Coos Bay is not sufficiently ad
vertised In the right place. We have
sent our statistics broadcast and not
shot them into even our own con
gressmen. There is probably not
one member of congress or the
United States senate who can be
called disinterested who understands
Coos Bay. It was thought that.
Chairman Burton of the Rivers and
Harbors committee would be a friend
to this bay when he declare dthat he
was delighted to learn that we could
get 40 feet depth on the bar and an
equal depth in the harbor. But fate
has now run him up against Tom
Johnson for mayor of Cleveland and
taken him from the committee where
his knowledge would be useful.
The Chamber of Commerce should
make an effort to Impress the com
mittee on Rivers and Harbors as well
as the president of the United States
and the commission which has ac
companied the chief on his progress
down the Mississippi river, that Coos
Bay is not a "small shallow bay" and
that it is only a small, shallow In
vestigation which would permit any
man to say so. Coos Bay is 15 miles
long and averages two miles wide,
and some of Its deep water inlets
aro from six to ten miles further. It
has no rock bottom and there is not
a bay between San Francisco and
Puget sound which can be deepened
and improved so cheaply. With
slight expense it can be made the su
perior of any harbor on Puget sound
because It would have plenty of an
chorage for all the naval fleets of
the United States. Puget sound has
not the coal either In quantity or
quality which this bay has.
KANDON.
Bandon-by-the-Sea claims the lar
gest operating sawmill In Coos coun
ty. The now Cody mill with Its big
band saws and its up-to-date machin
ery throughout Is an acquisition
which helps, if anything were need
ed to do so, to make Bandon ono of
the permanent cities of the coast.
That city is entitled to the admira
tion of all who appreciate a spirit of
enterprise and energy. She is one
of the few cities of tho middle Pa
cific which have been able to give
positive evidence that in the long
lost years Oregon was only waiting
to hear the command ring through
what seemed to be the tomb of her
opportunity saying- "'Arise. Come
forth!" Bandon was among tho
first to hear and to obey. Others
aro still rubbing their eyes and look
ing at her sleepily, but the example
of tho city by the sea, will inspire
them nil.
It is not belittling Bandon to say
that the position and water advan
tages of Coos Bay render It improba
ble that Coos Bay can ever havo a
rival for metropolitan greatness In
Southwestern Oregon. If it wore
probabio or oven possible, Bandon
would bo tho one. But so excep
tional are tho conditions which point
to tho selection of coos Bay and so
roniarkablo aro her harbor advantag
es, that she has no jealousy and
can have none. She therefore halls
Bandon and extends to her the right
hand of genulno satisfaction. Ban-don-by-the-Sca
has made excellent
progress and is uestlned to make
moro in tho future. At the mouth
of tho Coquillo river sho Is tho pro
spective metropolis of tho Coquillo
Valley. Sho lias the advantages of
water navigation for thirty miles
into tho interior by tho Coquillo
rlvor which, whllo not large
is ample for all tho uses
of tho 20,000 peojlo who will
hor city limits. Sho has a beach
wllch for plcturesquonoss and weird
and wild beauty Is not surpassed on
the Pacific coast, and when railroads
enter this section, as thoy must in
a short time, Bandon-bjthe-Sea will
bo nn attraction to tourists and to
society nil over tho couutry between
tho niouutalns aud tho sea and in
tho great lntor-mountnln country to
tho east. Bandon has a destiny.
.Ladles suits at Prentiss & Co. 'a.
The, Steamer
M. F. PLANT
Sails From North Hcnd nt 1 O'clock, Thursday, Sspt. 20Ui.
No reservation will be held after the an-lral of rtrtj vim tlclurt i
bought.
F.S DOWAg;ent
MARSHFIELD, : : : : OREGON
Portland & Coos Bay S S Line
BREAKWATER
Sails for Portland and Astoria every Thursday
C. F. McColIum, Agt.
Phone Mam 34
CURREN BROTHERS
CONTRACTORS
AIL Kinds of Work Done
PHONES v543, 146 and 271
North Bend, Oregon
California and Oregon Coast Steamship Company.
Sails from Portland Saturdays, 8 p. m.
Sails from Coos Bay Tuesdays, at service of tide.
P. Baumcartner, Ast. L. W. Slmw. At.
Couch St. Dock, Portland, Ore,
WHY DO PEOPLE BUY IN
BECAUSE
It is choice inside residence property, lots 50x100
with alleys, is well sheltered with a good bay view and
prices of lots are reasonable. For particulars se
TITLE GUARANTEE & ABSTRACT CO.
Henry Sengstacken, Manage.
We Pride Ourselves
In Dining Tables, Dining Chairs,
Library Furniture and Hitches Fn
nitiire; all kinds of Fancy Fu-nltara
and Special Orders ot Fixture.
Prepared to make aU kind of
Poultry and Store Fixture. Wo do
H kinds of Repairing nnd Roflnlsli.
rg.
Call us up about your orders.
Coos Bay Furniture Co.
North Bend, Oregon.
FOI
Cures C(
JLand Luni
rio
A. St. Dock
mer Alliance
B. W. OLSON, Mastar.
Marshfiold, re., Phono 441.
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aBiio, v-uma, vuy, A- wjppc, ASinma, IHroat The Genuine Is in the
Troubles, Prevents Pneaonia and Consumption bellow packaop
RED CROSS RHARMAGY
Coos Bay
Steam Laundry
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MARSHFIELD and NORTH BEND
All work now done at
the North Bend Plant
Edgar Mauzey
Agent, Marshficld
North Bend Phone 1031
Marshfield Phone 180
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Flanagan & Bennett Bank
MARSHFIEI.U. OIIEOON.
Capital Hubicribeil JW.000
Capital Paid Up !0,000
Undivided Fronts 3fi,000
Docs a ceneral banking business and draws
on the ilnk ot California. San Kranclsc
CallL, First National Bonk Portland Or., First
National Bank. Roecbu'rg, Or., Hanover Na
tional Bank, New York, N. M. Itotbohild &
Son, London, England.
A1k sell change on nearly all the principal
cities of Europe.
Accounts kept subject to check, safe deposit
lock boxes for rent at 5 centa a month or
$5. a Tear.
INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
QOW WHY
Always has on hand
a good stock of &
General Merchandise
AT PRICES THE CHEAPEST
All Kinds of
Groceries and Clothing
COOS HAT TRANSFER & STORAGE
COMPANY.
II. C. Ilreckenridgc,
C. H. Walters.
All kinds of Transferlng and Job
bing. Prices rcasonablo and
Goods handled with care.
Phone 6G1.
CAB CALL SERVICE
AT ANY HOUR
GOOD HEARSE and VEHICLES.
IIEISXER, MILLER & CO.
Livery, Feed and Sulo SUblo
Third and A Sts. Phona, 1201
Marshfield.
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All Parts i the World
We use the necessary
foeflfttos far sending
money to all parts of
tie world, and without
danger or loss. .. .
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
8 COOS BAY, Marshfield, Ore. H
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BLACKSMITH
4th and ESt.
G. E. NOAH
G. E. Noah has Just opened a first
class blacksmith shop nt comer A
Fourth and E streets, South MnrsS
Held. Patronage of public respect
fully solicited. Horseshoeing a spe
cialty. CONTAINS NO
HARMFUL
DRUGS
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1 McPherson Ginser Co. I
'a - Wholesale liquor dealers 9
'j Cigars and saloon uup- M
3 plies. M
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I California Winex a Specialty
I Front SI., Marshfield I
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